Photographs posted on social media showed the newlyweds – both civil servants from the eastern province of Jiangxi – perching next to a balloon-covered double bed as they copied out parts of the 11-chapter text.

there have been doubts that the couple happened to find a photographer in their wedding chamber while they happened to be writing down the party charter. Amateur detectives have pointed out that the bridegroom was wearing an expensive-looking watch in some pictures, but not in another. The bride’s nail polish also seems to disappear in one shot. The Nanchang railway bureau insisted that the event truly happened and was the voluntary doing of the couple, said a report on Sohu, a Chinese news website.